Friday was a "comme si, comme ca" day as the French would say.
We got everything finalised on the dyno; Mitch functionally checked all the I/O, and found my wiring checked out, except for the coils; I'd apparently transposed the pins for the IGT and IGF signals. (Note to Erol: I must not have had my bifocals on when I did that one
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Also found my new AEM WB O2 controller board wasn't putting out "quite" the right signal, so Mitch used the spare he brought to get the gains adjusted.
We then test fired all the injectors without fuel in the rail. Mitch fired them individually, while I listened with a shade tree mechanic's stethoscope (long screwdriver, touching the injector, and held to the ear). All sounded good except for #1, which sounded weak, but I could still hear it firing, so we continued.
Before turning the motor over, I rigged up my new spare Shurflo pump on the lube oil system, and used it to prelube the motor. The motor hasn't been run since the last dyno session, which was 4 months ago, so we wanted to get some oil in the bearings.
Next, we cranked the motor without fuel and synced the static timing of the motor to the AEM, which went well. We then turned the fuel on, fixed a few leaks, and set the fuel pressure to 43 psi static.
We noticed we weren't building any oil pressure with the engine oil pump during the timing sync process, so Dennis popped off the discharge hose from the pump, and we spun the motor again until we had oil coming out of the pump. Apparently there was some trapped air in the system as we built good oil pressure after this.
Unfortunately, the motor didn't want to spin freely afterward, and acted like it had fuel in the cylinders, so we pulled the plugs out and sure enough, 1 & 3 were wet, so that weakness I heard with #1 apparently was real, and we have at least one bad injector. This is really disappointing, because although these injectors are used, they were cleaned and tested. Since it was already after 6 PM in CDT on a Friday evening, I decided to try to find some injectors on the West coast before they shutdown for the weekend.
Got on the phone to RC Engineering, who were very pleasant, but not very helpful at all and said they couldn't possibly ship me any injectors before Monday, because it was already 4:15 PM in California and they would be closing in 45 minutes. Wow, thanks RC; I know who NOT to call in the future. Betcha if I was working for TRD or another big name tuning shop, it would have been different......
Then I called Bruce Holt of Five-O-Motorsports, who has given me great service for the 1-2 little orders I sent him for injector clips, and he confirmed he had the injectors in stock and could overnight 4 of them to me to have them Saturday morning. Now here's a little guy, trying to build his business the "right" way, so I ordered the injectors from him, and he will definitely be getting "all" my injector related business in the future.
So this morning we're going to pull the rail and injectors on the left bank, and see what's going on with them. Aside from that glitch, we're ready to fire the motor up.
Having Mitch here is great; on the way from the airport to Dennis' shop he plugged in his laptop, tweaked the AEM running the 2JZ in my Supra, and had an idle stability issue sorted out in 20 minutes. He is definitely "THE MAN" with the AEM.